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ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT

Gay Marriage⚭✖ Civil unnsCensorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedDiscrimatnVari by RegnEmployment Discrimatn✖ Sexual orientatn onlyHog DiscrimatnVari by RegnAdoptn✖ Step-child adoptn onlyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedConversn TherapyAmbiguo. SummaryItaly's LGBT muny ncerned by electn rultFears ernment will only promote 'tradnal' valuRight promis not to roll back rightsROME, Sept 27 (Rters) - The LGBT muny has "very real fears" after a nservative bloc domated by the far-right won Italy's general electn, a leadg gay rights mpaigner told natnalist Brothers of Italy group, led by Grgia Meloni, emerged as the largt party the ballot and will lead the most right-wg ernment Rome sce World War Two.

"Unfortunately there are very real fears" about an erosn of civil rights unr the new admistratn, Fabriz Marrazzo of the Gay Party is allied wh the League, another far-right force led by Matteo Salvi, and the mastream nservative Forza Italia of former premier Silv Berlni.

Explag her opposn to gay parentg rights, she has said that "unlucky children" who are up for adoptn "serve the bt" - meang a father and a has nied suggtns that her socially nservative outlook would stretch to unrmg or abolishg existg Italian legislatn on abortn rights or same-sex partnerships.

REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane'GENDER AND LGBT COLONISATION'Marrazzo, a former lear of the Arcigay LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) associatn who unsuccsfully stood the Sept. 25 electn, said he was most ncerned about the cultural signals g om the said might bee harr to n anti-LGBT discrimatn programm schools and said there had been an crease the past homophobic attacks Italian ci and regns wh right-wg Va & Famiglia, a nservative Catholic lobby that is highly spic of sex tn schools, has lled on the new ernment to pick an tn mister opposed to "any genr and LGBT iologil lonisatn schools" is not expected to take office before late October, so is too early to say whether she will heed the advice. He also said his party supports same-sex partnerships - spe havg voted agast their troductn 2016 - and "is agast all discrimatn"'s ai also stood by a ll to censor an episo of the popular children's rtoon "Peppa Pig" which featured a polar bear wh two mothers, sayg gay parents nnot be prented to mors "as an absolutely natural fact" surveys suggt most Italians are more June, an Ipsos poll showed that 63% of Italians backed marriage rights for gay people, up 15 pots om 2013, and 59% were favour of gay adoptns, an crease of 17 pots om ne years ago.

Italy’s senate has killed off a bill that would have ma vlence agast LGBT people and disabled people, as well as misogyny, a hate 315-member senate voted by 154 to 131 on Wednday to block the bate on the law, named after the gay centre-left Democratic party (PD) legislator Alsandro Zan and prevly approved by the lower hoe of parliament the face of months of protts om far-right and Catholic Picierno, a PD member of the European parliament, lled the vote “one of the worst pag the history of the Italian republic”.

Acrdg to the far-right parti that voted agast the bill the upper hoe, the law would have supprsed eedom of exprsn and promoted “homosexual propaganda” June, the Vatin ma an unprecented terventn urgg the Italian ernment to change the law over ncerns would ge upon the Catholic church’s “eedom of thought” over the approval of the bill, which would lead to people nvicted of such crim beg jailed for up to four years and perm an crease fundg for groups that work to fight agast discrimatn and assist people who are the victims of , me after a seri of high-profile attacks agast gay and transgenr groups receive hundreds of hate crime reports each year but many go unpunished.

”The foreign mister and ex-M5S lear Luigi Di Ma said the bill had been “swept away a disgraceful secret vote” while the Gay Roma group said was a “slap the face for the majory of the populatn” M5S lear and former prime mister Gieppe Conte said: “Those who are rejoicg at this sabotage should expla to the untry”. 6, aims to fight discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people schools, universi, hospals, prisons, sport clubs, and the workplace remends measur cludg LGBT-awarens urs for teachers, doctors, police officers and prison guards, monorg homophobic language the media, and addg specific anti-LGBT discrimatn cls natnal labour agreements.

”If gay people Italy, a untry that regularly ranks reports as beg among the worst wtern Europe for LGBTQ+ rights, had already unrstood that privileg so far gaed were threadbare, Meloni ma explicly clear they would not get any better unr her ernment. The first formal step towards s formatn rulted the electn of two ntroversial figur: Ignaz La Rsa, a Brothers of Italy polician who llects fascist memorabilia, and Lorenzo Fontana, a League member wh anti-abortn and anti-gay views, as speakers of the upper and lower hoe of parliament enacted a civil unns law 2016 when the untry was erned by a aln led by the centre-left Democratic party, but the bill stopped short of legalisg gay marriage, while a clse that would have allowed a person to adopt the child of their same-sex partner was scrapped after prsure om rightwg parti and the Catholic church. A mon feature of the rabble-rog speech given by Meloni, a self-scribed “Christian mother” who says she fends tradnal fay valu, is the reeratn of her view that a child should only be raised by heterosexual for homosexual upl is banned Italy, forcg people to travel abroad to bee parents.

“This ernment shouldn’t only make the mory groups aaid, but everyone, ” said ’s new prime mister has repeatedly said she is not homophobic and will not try to repeal the civil unns law.

“The stutns, the associatns, and the servic who al wh agile people, they should wonr if they gave them eedom of exprsn, ” the Arcigay anizatn wr, “ a society tly equal and civil, the right of voicg one’s genr inty has to be granted.